Cask, barrel, or keg.



No. 657,64. Patented Sept. 4, I900. e. H. mm

GASK, BARREL,v DR KEG.

(Application filed May 21, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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ME STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. RICKE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-THIRDS TO MICHAELDURNER, OF SAME PLACE, AND FRANK P. THOMAS, OF

EVANSTON, OHIO.

CASK, BARREL, OR KEG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters .Patent No. 657,134, datedSeptember 4, 1900. Application filed May 21, 1900. serial No. 17,466. onmodel.)

T0 50% whom it rrmy concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. RICKE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCasks, Barrels, or Kegs, of which the following is a specification.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a new andextremely-useful means of holding the heads of barrels, casks, kegs, andthe like in place in the barrel.

Another object of my invention is to provide means whereby the head,when thus locked, shall form a liquid-tight joint with the rest of thebarrel, the.

The several features of my invention and the various advantagesresulting from their use, conjointly or otherwise, will be apparent fromthe following description and claims.

Insomuch as the illustration of my invention may be applicable in thesame manner to barrels, casks, kegs, and the like, I will now proceed todescribe my invention in connection with a barrel.

In the accompanying drawing, making a part of this application, thefigure represents a vertical central section of a barrel illustrating myimprovements.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail. I

a A indicates a barrel, A the body or main portion thereof, and A thechime. Near each end of the body and in the latter I form an annularrecess B. This recess has a back side B extending from the adjacent endof the barrel to the bottom B of this recess. The plane of this bottomis substantially parallel to the plane of the end of the barrel. Theside B preferably makes an acute angle with the bottom B In the bottom13 0f this annular recess B is an annular recess C. The barrel-head D isof a diameter great enough not only to rest upon the bottom B but toextend over the recess C and toward the chime of the barrel; but theperipheral edge of the head D does not reach the side B of the annularrecess B, but stops short thereof and leaves a triangular-shaped recesswhose bottom is the bottom of the recess B and whose outer wall is theside 13 of the recess B and whose inner wall is the peripheral edge ofthe barrel-head.

IVhen the barrel-head is to be fastened into the barrel, a Water-tightpacking is duly laid in the annular groove C and extends slightly abovethe bottom B so that the adjacent surface of the barrel-head may restupon it, (the packing.) The barrel-head is then laid in place, as shownin the drawing, and the operation of locking the head in place is nextbegun and is as follows: I take a plastic material, preferably wood orstraw pulp, properly prepared to have a body and to have a toughcontinuity when dry. This filler and lockingpiece I denominate E. Iplace the plastic pulp upon the barrel-head and near its outer edge andalso introduce it between the edge of the head D and the chime, locatingit in the recess B I then apply suitable means for compressing thisplastic material. A die is one of the most effective of such means. Ithoroughly compress this plastic material. The latter becomes solid andlocks itself and the head securely in the barrel. That portion of theinterlocking pulp contained in the re cess E, (triangular incross-section,) connected to and in one with the rest of the part B,operates as a locking-key to prevent the Withdrawal of the part B andalso of the barrel-head. The junction of the head with the rest of thebarrel may be made liquid-tight in any suitable manner. I have alreadyspecified one mode of such meansviz., when the plastic material iscompressed, the barrelhead is pressed down upon the packing in thegroove 0 and compresses the packing, and thus renders the junction soclose that liquids or fluids within the barrel will not leak past thisjoint.

While I have thus far described the construction of one end of thebarrel and the combination of the head, packing, and plastic materialtherewith at the chime, I desire it to be understood that suchcombination may exist at the other end of the barrel, and ordinarilysuch construction and combination is to be present at each end of thebarrel.

Such barrels, casks, kegs, and the like will be those which arefluid-tight and are filled and emptied at the bung.

My invention is applicable to barrels, &c., of various materials.

I have shown my invention in combination with a barrel made ofcompressed pulp. Thus the barrel in the drawing illustrates onemanufactured out of pulp. In such a barrel the annular recess B at thechime is readily formed by dies at the time the barrel is formed.

My invention is simple and economical in construction, readily operated,and efiective in results.

What I claim as new and of myinvention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

1. The combination of a barrel having an end interior recess B having awall B a bottom 13 a head D resting on the said bottom B and forming asubrecess B connected to the rest of the recess B, and a locking deviceconsisting of the annular part E, made of a plastic material, andcompressed into the subrecess B", forming a main portion E resting inpart upon the head and a key or looking part E connected thereto,substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination of a barrel having an end interior annular recess B,formed with a wall B and a bottom or ledge B, and a looking device madeof plastic material com pressed upon the head and into the subrecess Bat the peripheral edge of the head, and a packing for rendering thejunction of the parts fluid-tight, substantially as and for the purposesspecified.

3. The combination of a barrel having an end interior annular recess B,formed with a wall B and a bottom or ledge B and an annular recess 0 insuch ledge or bottom, a packing present in such recess, a head restingon the said bottom, and forming a subrecess B connected to the recess B,and a locking device made of plastic material compressed upon the headand into the recess B, forming a locking ring B B substantially as andfor the purposes specified.

4. Abarrel whose main portion is composed of plastic material,compressed to shape, and provided at end with an annular recess, andahead adapted to rest upon the bottom thereof and form a sublockingrecess, and an annular recess for packing, the packing, and a plasticring compressed onto the head and into the recess and sublocking recess,substantially as and for the purposes specified.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a barrel composed of compressed pulpand provided at the end with an annular recess adapted to receive a headadmitted through the end of the barrel and resting upon the bottom ofthis recess, the latter extending upward and inward toward the chime,and at its base of a diameter greater than the head and leaving a spacewherein a ring of plastic material may be pressed, and lock the head inand to the barrel, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

GEORGE H. RlCKE.

Attest:

SAMUEL A. WEST, K. SMITH.

